Farm work and no rain

Not much rain this month - only about half an inch so far. While the pastures are still green and growing, they sure are not recovering as quickly as we're used to. As a result, we cannot rotate the animals back into pastures as soon as usual. Not to worry - we've been opening up more areas for them to graze. It's amazing how fast you can expand with hi-tensile electric fencing and some t-posts.

One problem caused by the lack of rain that we did not consider was the drought's affect on our downtime. Usually we have a weekend or two every month with an all-day rain so that we can't do any work outside for a day or two. It kinda forces us to take time off and relax. I think that has happened only once or twice this entire summer. With it so dry, we've been working hard every weekend, down til dusk. We've gotten a lot accomplished - new pastures, lots of firewood, added sheep, brought in more pigs, etc. But I could sure use a soaking wet Saturday for some guilt-free goofing off.